Beautiful. Just beautiful. Such a wonderful richness of language and imagery, and this poem will touch so many people on so many different levels. Anthony you have surpassed yourself!!
Cate xx
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
Oh just some things I brought for you
I thought you might have missed – comforts, more for me than you
perhaps,
The whole poem is very accurate but, yes taking gifts to a grave side is a most devastating moment in life
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
I'm soft. My eyes welled up too. In a good way.
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
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Ta very much, Tommy, Dave and Andy.
Comment is about Bad Faith (blog)
Beautiful, I love such poems as these, and though it seems churlish to crib it, I shall anyway. The excellence of the poem lies between "a firmament of winter stars" and "an agnostic's faltering prayer". I think if you ended there and abbreviated the intro somewhat you'd have a great poem.
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
I used "unthought" in the last poem I posted, without being certain it's a proper word. So I'll assume it is now.I love your inventive way with language, without always grasping what you're on about, though that's not the be-all. Funnily enough, I thought the best line was the simple "It makes me want to stamp my feet".
Comment is about The Hour of the Critic (blog)
Original item by Marianne Daniels
Hi Andy, thanks for your feedback. I do agree with you about not needing hard and defensive together but when i read it back again i cant seem to not say it now. x
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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Hi, dear Ann! Thank you very much for congratulating me with my birthday. Your birthday is on the 26th of May, isn't it? We are really spiritually very close to each other. My congratulations to you. We say here: better late than never. With warmest wishes, Larisa
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
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darren thomas
Thu 27th May 2010 08:20
Yes, this is superb. Its language, its pace but overall its theme which resonates with me as I lost a childhood 'best friend' when we were both just 15.
Great writing Anthony.
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
Hi;
I referred my painter friend Olga over to your comment on your paintings... Have you being given any links off her stuff to look at online (there is a few bits and pieces) x
Comment is about Marianne Daniels (poet profile)
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enjoyed this, marianne.. top banana in particular 'a suspended child willing the will of work away' but the language is generally pretty crisp and shows a lot of thought...
i enjoyed this! x
Comment is about The Hour of the Critic (blog)
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excellent dave.. i would totally fail to keep a straight face if i was trying to perform this however.. lol
Comment is about human being (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
couple of layers there, kath which could be take several ways but i like the way you change it from the third person to the first person in the last stanza works pretty well..
not sure if you need both defensive and hard on the last stanza as i think it adds a extra beat which doesn't exist in the first two stanzas..
either way, top banana - i think you are defo getting better x
Comment is about (blog)
Original item by Kath Hewitt
excellent stuff - lot of good lines but my favourite is 'the ill-defined tremor of repeat prescriptions'
andy n
Comment is about Bad Faith (blog)
Me too ... absolutely wonderful. Love it!
Cx
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
Original item by Anthony Emmerson
Are we WOLOPing this month? And thank you so much for lovely comment on "Poetess" too. x
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
Original item by Isobel
Blimey Tommy - you windin' me up? ;-) I promise if I ever write the sequal ("Let My Second Cousin Twice Removed Be A Gnu") that the giraffe will have a special verse just for you! But don't hold your breath! x
Comment is about family (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
What a wonderful poem Anthony. Made me cry. Those last four lines particularly. x
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
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You pose some interesting questions Dave, related to puzzles and life...
I personally get frustrated when my puzzles have missing pieces ; )
Comment is about Jigsaw (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
We can all relate to your words in some respect Rosemary, because nobody wants to be ignored or feel the indifference of another they have loved.
Powerful lines:
'It kills me slowly, stabbing the goddess within
It razors my heart in two
And leaves me longing for word of you.'
'a void unfilled now grows within
A black hole in my soul'
Comment is about Golden Silence? (blog)
I really like this poem. The image of the cat caught my attention straight away. Then, the "I too was hunting" section brings in regret and memory in a very moving way. A thoughtful piece.
Comment is about white cat hunting (blog)
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<Deleted User> (8243)
Thu 27th May 2010 00:56
"Her breasts are a rhyming couplet"
Probably the best line of poetry I have came across in my time on this site.
Comment is about the poetess (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
But I like giraffes, why are there no giraffes?
Comment is about family (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
thing is ladies , you both know darn well that isnt who i am , it might be who i aspire to be :) but its not how it is
yes chris , you are right tent :)
Comment is about BIG DIAMONDS (blog)
Original item by Shoeless Carole
Lol - I think I've met him.
Croutonic? A little square and crusty? Floats in soup?
Cx
Comment is about human being (blog)
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You've changed your tent - you need more diamonds for a tent than a tit ... well perhaps not in my case ... I don't own a tent. :)
Love it.
Cx
Comment is about BIG DIAMONDS (blog)
Original item by Shoeless Carole
Really like this - fourth verse particularly! though maybe take out the quotation marks and she says?
Well done.
Cx
Comment is about the poetess (blog)
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I really like this, agree with Graham, very charming. I can also identify (if you swop the shes & hers to hes and his), which I guess most of us can at some time or other.
Well done.
Cx
Comment is about I Wrote A Poem... (blog)
Original item by Steven Kenny
Hi Isobel,
Thanks for your comments on 'Play Me', glad you liked it.
I've never tried a didgeridoo ... I don't think I'd be able to blow one, I prefer something much smaller and with a little more sophistication to it - like my clarinet. I agree though that finishing on a diminuendo is lovely.
:)
Cx
Comment is about Isobel (poet profile)
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Hi Ann,
Thanks for your very generous comments on 'Play Me' - you're up the right tree, so to speak, though - no, sadly, no lover present.
You should definitely post yours! - I love Sheherezade! :)
Cx
Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)
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Hi Andy - thanks for your comments on 'Play Me' - glad you liked it. Perform it live! ... I think I'd be way too embarrassed! I have only managed to perform one of my own live so far, and that was with Paul & Winston's support - utterly nerve-wracking!
Cx
Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)
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Hi Larisa, Thank-you very much for your kind comments on 'Play Me'.
Cx
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<Deleted User> (7212)
Wed 26th May 2010 22:45
every time I make love it's a haiku these days....
Comment is about the poetess (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
Sounds like you've got your priorities right LOL - if he has a brother, do introduce me!
Comment is about BIG DIAMONDS (blog)
Original item by Shoeless Carole
And does he wear his hair long and let it all blow in the wind?
A quirky little poem Dave - I like the ending - there's more to all of us once you look inside.
Comment is about human being (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
I love this Ann - all of it. You pretty much sum us female poets up - we love with body and soul - and words are just so important.
The ending is perfect!
Comment is about the poetess (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
This may be better without the third and forth verses. But as I hate making decisions I left them in! Maybe because they make her seem like a real person I wanted to keep them in there. xx
Comment is about the poetess (blog)
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Ah yes! All that you say is true! And I love the first verse. A poem on it's own. x
Comment is about human being (blog)
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Can but agree with the others. Outstanding
Comment is about Bad Faith (blog)
<Deleted User> (7212)
Wed 26th May 2010 20:14
Hi there - thanks for the very kind comments on the last two - it's much appreciated. all the best. B
Comment is about Nash (poet profile)
Original item by Nash
Loved this Dave. I've always thought it better not to show people the picture on the box.
Comment is about Jigsaw (blog)
Original item by Dave Bradley
There is a prayer-like quality to this Ann. I liked it but was also unnerved by its rhythm, strangely.
Comment is about family (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
This has really pleasing little hooks that amplify what is a quiet little piece. I found it tender and charming.
Comment is about I Wrote A Poem... (blog)
Original item by Steven Kenny
Helen Thomas
Wed 26th May 2010 17:59
Thankyou Rev and Ms Foxglove - I've not been on the site for agesam I putting this comment in the right box? But thanks for your lovely comments wherever you are!
Comment is about Two more youtube clips from me (blog)
I guess I was dreaming of a time when the lion would lie down with the lamb etc, and was given the idea by the little picture (top of this page) even tho' it seems more domestic animals are involved here. So I won't be applying for that job at London Zoo then!
Comment is about family (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
...but why is an elephant wise? and a zebra playful? don't zebra's run to escape lions? who try to eat them? omg your mother eating your sister!...I shiver to think of you in charge-Johnny Morrisy like- of a zoo.
Comment is about family (blog)
Original item by Ann Foxglove
This is very good.
Comment is about Bad Faith (blog)
<Deleted User> (7212)
Thu 27th May 2010 13:25
what can we say - I'm sure you can hear the applause. B
Comment is about Visiting Neil (blog)
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